Junior Designer
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Product & Marketing
Salary range: 22-28
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Entry level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Financial Services
Function: Art/Creative

Company profile:
Yoyo has built a platform the creates better relationships between retailers and consumers. Our consumer app seamlessly blends payment, loyalty and discovery done right, and our set of retailer tools allows retailers to bring their customers in the door more often with timely and relevant offers.We're a one-year-old marketing and technology startup founded by senior executives from Visa, PayPal and Zopa. We’ve raised over $5 million dollars in funding from institutional investors, strategic investors such as Telefonica, as well as super angel investors from the payment and retail sectors.We're a group of 20 passionate and talented engineers, entrepreneurs, designers and marketers. We're growing and we're looking for amazing people to join our team. Apply to any of the positions below, or if nothing fits your skills, email us at #EMAIL_7ce49be16f9e66439919f1c47a528335d3333bba509ffccb7866380bb8cc171e#.

Job description:
Thousands of students are using Yoyo everyday to buy their lunch, get their caffeine fix or buy their mates a beer at their Student Union. At Yoyo, we’re making student life work. But we're not stopping there.Combining payments, loyalty and discovery, we’re a company on a mission to upgrade the relationship between retailers and their customers; making transactions friendly, fun, seamless, awesome. The mission, should you choose to accept it, is one where design is central.We’re looking for a sharp, ambitious and inventive mind to join our team. As one of the first designers in a nimble and rapidly growing company you’ll work directly with our Creative, Product &amp; Engineering teams to turn your designs into reality; call it an opportunity help define the future of the high street.

Requirements:
Innate interest in current and emerging technologiesExcellent sensibilities in typography, composition &amp; colourYou see yourself as a *designer*, you’re wired to solve problems of all shapes and sizes (without a UI/UX/Graphic preamble)1-2 years experience in a creative agency or tech startup; or even less but a tonne of potentialThorough understanding of modern web technologies such as HTML5/SCSS/JS, with a solid online portfolio showcasing some of your workStrong competency in Adobe Creative Suite, most notably Adobe IllustratorComfortable making simple illustrations and meticulous with iconographyRecently graduated from university (we’re not precious about it being a design related discipline; intelligence and curiosity are better)Experience or knowledge with/of motion animation and current prototyping toolsGood with language and comfortable writing accompanying copy for your designsThe ability to apply analytics meaningfully to product decisionsYou can’t check all these boxes today, but you’re bursting with the enthusiasm to learn

Benefits:
Competitive salary and packagePrivate health careRelocation support if you’re joining us from abroadWork in a collaborative, flexible, open-minded and flat organisationWork on challenging real-world problems that you can take ownership of